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Galway bay lyrics
'Tis far-rr away I am today
from scenes I roame-dd a-boy,
And long ago the hour I know
I first saw ill-i-nois;
But time nor tide nor waters wide
could wean my hearr-t away,
For ever true it flies to you,
my own dear old Galway Bay.
O ! grey and bleak, by shores and creek,
the rug-ged rocks a bound,
But sweet and green the grass between,
as grows on Irish ground,
So friendship fond all wealth beyond,
and the love that liv-ives always,
Bless every home beside your foam,
my own dear Galway Bay.
Had I youth's blood and thoughtful mood
and a heart of fire once more,
For all-ll the gold the world might hold
I'd never leave-eee your shore,
I'll be content with what-ever-God sent
with neigh-bours old and gray,
And I lay my bones, 'neath church yard stones,
beside you, Galway Bay.
The blessing of a poor-old man
be with you night and day,
The blessing of a lonely man
whose heart will soo-oon be clay;
'Tis all the Heav-ven I'll ask of God
upon my dying day,
My soul to soar for-ever more
above you Galway Bay.
Part of these releases
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- Track 5 on Best of Dolores Keane
- 4 Never Be The Sun
- 6 The Island
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- Track 10 on Sail Og Rua
- 9 Sail Og Rua
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bill crump 0 points
Can anyone tell me what is the musical instrument, that is so softly and deeply present throughout the song,accented strongly in the third line beginning correspondimg with this part of the line "hour I know -I first saw ill-i-nois" ??????
bill crump 0 points
Evidently, based upon the information I came upon in my internet researching, the lyrics to this Delores Keane version of Galway Bay were written by Francis A. Fahy (born in 1854 in county Galway in Ireland)and I could find no record that he had ever immigrated to America nor had ever been to Illinois. He did immigrate to London, England and died in London in 1935. He spent his life in literature, in teaching, research and adminstration position in a college environment, all the while writing poems of which many were suitable for music, though none have (or ever will) reach the popularity and perfection that Galway Bay has achieved in the simply astounding rendition entwined in the masterful voice of Doleores Keane.
bill crump 0 points
This is a wondrous masterpiece that is soft simple and beautiful in music and in voice - the accompaniment is phenomenal, all the instrument have their sounds perfected yet each can be distinguished both separately and combined, it just couldn't be any better, Dolores has a gentle yet penetrating voice that is kin in it's essence to a mother singing to her new born, or an angel singing to the Lord. I have supplied the lyrics with phonic my interpretation as best I can for Delores's beautifully accented Irish, which is such a main and outstanding part of the greatness of the song, though trying unless "yee'er an Erin'er" - I think the lyrics are, on their own, marvelous poetry and can stand by their self right beside of the works of the greatest and most renown of the amazing Irish poets. Galway Bay is a treasure that hopefully everyone should enjoy with teary eyes and deep appreciation each and every morn and each and every evening while thanking the sun and later the stars for allowing such beauty to exist for us here during the time we are allowed to be on earth.